resentful - Story 117780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected to feel like this. His sister, Isabella, got the sailing yacht, the one they'd all grown up on. He, Michael, received the family's old cottage, miles from the water.

He stood in the humid heat of the lawyer's office, feeling like he'd been punched. His jaw was clenched, his eyes fixed on the blank wall. He walked towards the office and away from her and he slammed the door.

He looked around the cottage, his gaze falling on the chipped paint and the creaking floorboards. He felt a sudden, fierce wave of frustration, a feeling of being cheated. He kicked at a loose floorboard, the wood splintering under his foot. He stormed out of the cottage and wanted to be anywhere but there.

Emotion: resentful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.47 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resentful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 resentful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resentful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resentful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210